A financing plan calls for using tolls to pay for the bulk of replacing the Brent Spence Bridge between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

Written by

Amanda Van Benschoten
| The Cincinnati Enquirer

For more than a decade, Northern Kentucky's business community has been united in the belief that the aging, overcrowded Brent Spence Bridge is unsafe, inhibits economic growth and needs to be replaced.

Now, for the first time, it is also united in the belief that a public-private partnership and tolls are the best route forward for the $2.6 billion project - and it plans to push state lawmakers to come around to that way of thinking.

The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce's board of directors voted Wednesday to take a new position on the issue, acknowledging that construction "will not ...